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* Played with in ''Film/{{Alone}}'', where Jess attempts to escape from the basement with this, but the key is stuck in the lock. She notices a bare nail sticking out of a wooden post, pries it out, and uses it to poke the key loose and catch it with her sweatshirt.

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* Played with in ''Film/{{Alone}}'', ''Film/{{Alone|2020}}'', where Jess attempts to escape from the basement with this, but the key is stuck in the lock. She notices a bare nail sticking out of a wooden post, pries it out, and uses it to poke the key loose and catch it with her sweatshirt.
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* ''ComicBook/BouleEtBill'' once did this, using Bill's ear as the paper.

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* ''ComicBook/BouleEtBill'' ''ComicBook/BillyAndBuddy'' once did this, using Bill's ear as the paper.
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* In the children's series ''The Baker Street Irregulars'' by Creator/TerranceDicks (involving modern-day Sherlock Holmes fans who solve crimes), a SnoopingLittleKid is locked in a room by a suspect, and uses this method only to find someone standing guard outside the door watching the entire process. Fortunately the guard finds it ActuallyPrettyFunny and lets him escape.

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* In the children's series ''The Baker Street Irregulars'' by Creator/TerranceDicks (involving (about a group of modern-day Sherlock Holmes fans who solve crimes), a SnoopingLittleKid is locked in a room by a suspect, and uses this method only to find someone standing guard outside the door watching the entire process. Fortunately the guard finds they find it ActuallyPrettyFunny and lets let him escape.
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* The trope was discussed in a magazine article promoting ''VideoGame/FullThrottle'', by comparing how that game's protagonist, [[BadassBiker Ben]], would open a locked door using a sandwich compared to [[{{Nerd}} Bernard Bernoulli]] from the ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion'' games. Bernard would disassemble the sandwich to use the lettuce and toothpick, according to the trope. Ben would simply eat the sandwich [[OpenSaysMe and kick the door in]].

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* The trope was discussed in a magazine article promoting ''VideoGame/FullThrottle'', by comparing how that game's protagonist, [[BadassBiker Ben]], would open a locked door using a sandwich compared to [[{{Nerd}} Bernard Bernoulli]] Bernoulli from the ''VideoGame/ManiacMansion'' games. Bernard would disassemble the sandwich to use the lettuce and toothpick, according to the trope. Ben would simply eat the sandwich [[OpenSaysMe and kick the door in]].

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